Circular Economy from Data Challenge seeks solutions to practical problems

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In the challenge competition organized by the Circular Design Innovation Community, Valio, the City of Helsinki and Motiva Services, the City of Espoo, Akkukierrätys Pb and Recser, the Finnish Mining Industry Association and Lounais-Suomen Jätehuolto looking for solutions to practical challenges.

How can and should data be collected? And what kind of data is needed to create a new circular economy business? These are some of the questions that are encouraged to be considered in the Circular Economy from Data challenge competition, which was opened to everyone at the beginning of December, in which actors from different sectors present practical circular economy challenges to be solved using data.

The role of data at the core of business has become even stronger in recent years, and especially in the circular economy, data opens up new opportunities and accelerates the transition towards new circular economy operating models. Competitive challenges show that data solutions are needed across a wide range of sectors: from the circular economy of textiles and batteries to the processing of agricultural side streams or mining and demolition waste. Opening up data and utilizing open data, in turn, opens up development opportunities for a wide range of actors.

Submissions for the competition are open until January 24th – after that, the competition jury will meet to review the ideas and announce their decision on the finalists by January 31.1st. The final will be held as a hybrid event in Helsinki on March 17.3.2022th, XNUMX, and the finalists will have until the event day to further develop their ideas and refine their presentation.

More information about the challenges and the practical implementation of the competition can be found on the competition website, www.circinnovation.com/challengecompetition and answers to open questions will be available at a virtual information event open to everyone on December 16.12th, registration for which is open until December 15.12th. https://www.lyyti.in/Challenge_Competition_Info.

There is power in collaboration – register for the competition and join us in developing circular economy data solutions!

Circular Design Innovation Community is an innovation community launched by Aalto University, the Geological Survey of Finland (GTK), the Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke), the Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE) and the Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT), with the aim of promoting and creating design-based circular economy solutions. Read more on the website: www.circinnovation.com